Join TTC's Mona Lewicka and Walking Mentorship Founder, Joao Perre-Viana, on ‘The Way.” This is a journey of self-discovery where you can explore your needs, desires, fears, and obstacles that keep you from reaching your potential. It helps you explore your true identity. Through this program, you will be able to understand your purpose, set goals in your life, and achieve them with the support of your action plan.
Setting well-rooted goals for your life, and having a plan to reach them is the single most powerful step you can take to live a fulfilling life.
On your first day, we will gather the group in Santiago de Compostela train station and will take a train to Ourense where we will start our walk towards Oseira Monastery. You will take the time to reflect on the different aspects of your current situation. The exercise will take a 360-degree "polaroid" of your life and create a picture of where you now stand.
Lodging: Oseira Monastery - Single room
The second exercise is an invitation to disconnect totally and use the opportunity to dig deeper into yourself and look back in your life. What you learn from your history will help you craft your future.
Lodging: Oseira Monastery (Hospedaria) - Single room
This is a day to rest your legs without having to carry your backpack. At Oseira Monastery simplicity rules - rooms are plain but spacious and comfortable, shared meals are simple but always good, and the lack of options makes you value the luxury of time in all its glory. If you want, you can visit the Monastery, attend prayers and even book a talk with one of the Brothers. Today's exercise will make you see how you use your time and your activities align with your inner self. This is a process where you have to work from the inside out.
Lodging: Oseira Monastery (Hospedaria) - Single room
Today you will experience a visioning exercise. You will identify and describe how you idealise your life at a specific point in the future. We have a light walk through quaint villages and beautiful countryside, and sometimes the crows accompany us for a while. Bendoiro is an old Pazo, a little piece of heaven - and just the place to envision your ideal future. Here you will feel pampered - the food is an amazing cross between contemporary and classic Galician, always supported on the best local ingredients, with amazing local wines by small producers. You'll have beautiful gardens, century-old rooms with fireplaces and countless corners for you to work on your exercise.
Lodging: Pazo de Bendoiro (Rural Tourism Category A) - Twin room
Now that you have imagined your future, you will build a bridge from your vision back to the present. This will provide you with the momentum for the decisions you must make and also the opportunity to align it with your purpose. The landscape keeps changing, but somehow the walking becomes more natural. Another beautiful country manor awaits us and in Bandeira, we will have another real food experience, just like a local.
Lodging: Casa Cacheiro (Rural Tourism Category A) - Twin room
After selecting the outcomes you are committing to in the previous exercise you are ready to detail your Action Plan. This is the final kilometre of the program and also the beginning of a new stage in your life. To have a real feel of a pilgrimage, this night we sleep in a private Albergue - so you graduate as a true walker of the Camiño. We are welcomed by the owner who will also be our cook, so you should be ready for a traditional and abundant meal, just like the locals.
Lodging: Reina Lupa (Hospedaria) - Bunk Beds/ Mixed Dormitory
The final exercise takes place with your Action Plan already in motion. Fine-tuning and feedback loops become your new norm. Arriving in Santiago is always a riveting experience. The throbbing energy of the arriving pilgrims mixes with the fiesta of the university students and the party seems to be ongoing. Immense joy, a feeling of overcoming and satisfaction mixes with all the stimulus of countless languages, street artists and restaurants. Reaching the Obradoiro, the large plaza below the Cathedral we reach the end of our way. But our program is at its apex. We stay in a magical place just by the Obradoiro and this night the dinner is a private group event - cooked by the group, for the group - with special toasts to the new old friends you will have made along the Camiño.
Lodging: Hotel Praza Quintana (Twin Room)
You are free to book your departure anytime. Safe travels!
Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
